The left’s multi-million-dollar activist machine is turning its sights on Kansas, a red state they hope to flip blue—and there is no shortage of get out the vote money for…
Education is the secret to happiness, comfort, and prosperity. Ignorance is the bedfellow of misery, poverty, and hardship. But education is missing in too many communities. Why? A combination of…
It is the role of schools and our teachers to inculcate critical thinking and eschew indoctrination. Unfortunately, our teachers are underpaid and overworked and overstressed and underappreciated. Administrators often look…
Teachers’ unions are to the education of students what a ball and chain are to a swimmer. Their counter-educational mission is the collective maximization of pay and benefits coupled with…
The abysmal state of public-school education controlled by teachers’ unions has given birth to private and charter schools as competitive alternatives for ambitious and industrious parents and students. That is…
How to Save the West, the debut book from Claremont Institute editor and podcast host Spencer Klavan, sets itself an impossible task with its title—one its author tacitly admits in…
Washington, D.C.’s Revised Criminal Code Act, which softens penalties for a wide range of criminal offenses within the district, is controversial to say the least. Last week, a bipartisan majority in the…
In ancient Rome, politicians lied about the start of the new year. The Clinton administration lied about the beginning of the new century. And if you commemorated the federal holiday…
We’re doing something a little different this week: We are joined by Rusty Brown of the Freedom Foundation for a bit of government-worker union wonkery. Brown and his colleagues have…
An entire library was to Martin but an “after-dinner mint.” He daily consumed oceans of books, newspapers, and magazines on every subject imaginable and several beyond the imaginations of most…